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EMI uses P2P file sharing apps: claim
p2pnet news — ... One prominent example is the song “U R So Gay” from the aforementioned Katy Perry, who is signed to Capitol Records, which in turn is owned by EMI. While this is one of the thousands of songs EMI is suing MP3tunes for linking to on its Sideload.com web site, everyone else in the world is free to listen to and download the song from the following URL: ...

Mike Robertson open letter to EMI
p2pnet news — p2pnet news view Music:- What do music sharing genius Michael Robertson and massive illegal file sharing criminal (according to the RIAA)  Marie Lindor have in common? - p2pnet asked earlier today, going on: “MP3Tunes owner Michael Robertson recently said EMI has been engaging in massive free online distribution, ‘using its own websites, using music blogs and other third party sites, and employing paid content delivery networks, of its song files, including the song files which it alleges MP3 is infringing,’ posted Ray Beckerman in ...

@ MidemNet: MP3.com's Robertson Vs EMI's Nicoli: A Legal Divide; Music Biz Failed Like Wall Street
paidContent — An extraordinary spectacle to open this weekend's MidemNet digital music conference in Cannes, France. MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, named on the speaker agenda, couldn't be here in person after all - because terms of EMI's lawsuit against his MP3Tunes music site prevented him being on stage with ex EMI Music CEO Eric Nicoli. Instead, Robertson appeared above Nicoli's head, on the big screen from California via video link - a potent reminder the gulf between labels and technologists is still all too wide, the legal animosity all too prescient. EMI under Nicoli issued a 2007 ...

EMI Suing More Music Sites For Offering 'Playable Search'
paidContent — Seeqpod's founders must feel like Mike Robertson about now. Just as EMI is suing the MP3.com founder for his Sideload site, the label and its Capitol imprint have now filed suit against Seeqpod for copyright infringement, VentureBeat writes. Warner already sued Seeqpod, which doesn't host tracks but which provides a search index and player for them, in January 2008. Unlike Warner's, EMI's case is personal - just as it targeted Robertson personally, the label has named founder and Seqqpod CEO Kazian Franks and investors Raf Podowski as Shekhar Lodha defendants. Not only that. ...